[CentOS] A couple of security questions

2008-06-20 Thread Luigi Perroti
Hello, I'd like to ask a couple of things: 1) I would like to move from Debian to CentOS. One thing I will probably miss is the debsecan tool. This utility sends me a mail whenever there is a change regarding the vulnerabilities' status on my system. It lists new ones, resolved ones and current on

[CentOS] mdbtools on CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Nigel Kendrick
Morning everyone, I was hoping to use mdbtools to extract data from some Access databases overnight. I have yum installed the tools from Dag and also downloaded and (eventually!) compiled the latest release from the mdbtools web site, but I either get 'buffer overflow' errors or no output from mo

Re: [CentOS] ClamAV help needed

2008-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 June 2008 06:13, Martin Garcia wrote: > Hi Anne, I have many servers running clamav, simply use the dag repos > http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/ and install it via yum "yum install clamav > clamd" then run freshclam, thats it. I presume your configuration is not > properly done. > It turned

[CentOS] Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread Nigel Kendrick
Hi - daft one for Friday morning coffee break: I have been trying to mount floppies on a couple of CentOS5 servers - the usual "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (yes, /mnt/floppy exists!). On both servers, the mount command just doesn't come back and I have to hit CTRL-C. I have tried different medi

Re: [CentOS] rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused

2008-06-20 Thread Ralph Angenendt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > options { > default-key "rndckey"; > default-server 127.0.0.1; > default-port 953; > }; You bind it to localhost, but > controls { >inet 172.18.3.57 port 953 >allow { 172.18.3.57; } keys { "rndckey"; }; > }; don't allow

Re: [CentOS] A couple of security questions

2008-06-20 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Luigi Perroti wrote: > One thing I will probably miss is the debsecan tool. > This utility sends me a mail whenever there is a change regarding the > vulnerabilities' status on my system. > It lists new ones, resolved ones and current ones. > > Is there anything similar for CentOS? Not yet (there

Re: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Nigel Kendrick wrote: > So is it me, CentOS 5 or something else? (Ideas, anyone!?). It could be a > set of duff floppies and three flaky drives (two brand new), but I thought > I'd ask before I spend too much more time on it! As always: Logfile excerpts could have been a great help. Also dmesg pr

[CentOS] New convert

2008-06-20 Thread Matt Harwood
All, Apologies for cluttering the list, but I just wanted to say hello and prepare all for a barage of silly discussions from a tech-hypochondriac! We have recently purchased two servers running CentOS, and as I'm from more of a Debian based background, it would be good if someone could point

RE: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread Nigel Kendrick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:01 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies Nigel Kendrick wrote: > So is it me, CentOS 5 or something else? (Ideas, anyone!?). It could

Re: [CentOS] New convert

2008-06-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
Matt Harwood wrote: All, Apologies for cluttering the list, but I just wanted to say hello and prepare all for a barage of silly discussions from a tech-hypochondriac! We have recently purchased two servers running CentOS, and as I'm from more of a Debian based background, it would be good if

Re: [CentOS] New convert

2008-06-20 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
Matt Harwood ha scritto: All, Apologies for cluttering the list, but I just wanted to say hello and prepare all for a barage of silly discussions from a tech-hypochondriac! We have recently purchased two servers running CentOS, and as I'm from more of a Debian based background, it would be go

Re: [CentOS] FF3 printing problem on Centos 4.x

2008-06-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
fred smith wrote: I'm using Centos 4.x (fully up to date) on a system at work. I have also been using firefox 2 (directly from mozilla.org) on it for a long time, and it tends to work just fine. yesterday I installed the new FF3 release. It works fine too, with one exception: The print dialog

Re: [CentOS] New convert

2008-06-20 Thread Matt Harwood
Thank you Johnny and Lorenzo! Much, much appreciated. I do feel silly just asking for general advice, and not Googling (I am, but time is restricted) but I need to get up to speed using CentOS instead of Deb ASAP.. as our servers are deployed next week. Thank you so much again, I shall get read

Re: {Phishing} {Disarmed} [CentOS] What will the upgrade to 5.2 be like?

2008-06-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rob Townley wrote on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:57:05 -0500: > Why do distributions put in very old versions of Firefox - 1.5 when 2.0 > has been out for a year or more and 3.0 was just released. Because at *that time* when the distribution was finalized it seemed to be the best decision and a newer

Re: [CentOS] New convert

2008-06-20 Thread Dunc
Matt Harwood wrote: Thank you Johnny and Lorenzo! Much, much appreciated. I do feel silly just asking for general advice, and not Googling (I am, but time is restricted) but I need to get up to speed using CentOS instead of Deb ASAP.. as our servers are deployed next week. Thank you so much aga

[CentOS] rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refuse

2008-06-20 Thread suresh . tattikota
hi wile i am running the command rndc reload i am getting the error rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refuse any one can suggest where i am doing wrong this is my rndc.conf key "rndckey" { algorithm hmac-md5; secret "fKZfrqGy9VOPOLA3pgDACA=="; }; options {

Re: [CentOS] New convert

2008-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 June 2008 10:52:49 Matt Harwood wrote: > Thank you Johnny and Lorenzo! Much, much appreciated. I do feel silly > just asking for general advice, and not Googling (I am, but time is > restricted) but I need to get up to speed using CentOS instead of Deb > ASAP.. as our servers are deplo

Re: [CentOS] New convert

2008-06-20 Thread Matt Harwood
Dunc and Anne, Thanks for your replies! Yes it certainly seems a nice, active list. As for my mobile number, I've no problems sharing it - it's not my personal one anyway :-) Thanks again! *Matt Harwood* Designer, NannyGroup Limited Mob: 07887 817769 Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 20 June

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
Jim Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have a look at these pages: http://www.bofh-hunter.com/2008/06/13/3ware-performance-in-centos/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444759 I'm comparing the default 5.1 64bit kernel with the patc

[CentOS] Logitech cordless desktop ex 90

2008-06-20 Thread jarmo
Anyone using ex 90? I have it running, no problem. Only mouse was little tricky, namely in X. But jut a little change in xorg.conf and everything works fine (CO 5.1 desktop install with vanilla kernel). Now would like to get keyboards extra buttons in use. Question is, anyone configured it allread

Re: [CentOS] rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refuse

2008-06-20 Thread Ralph Angenendt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > > wile i am running the command rndc reload > > i am getting the error > > rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refuse What was wrong with the answer I gave you at Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:58:05 +0200? Cheers, Ralph pgpGV5VlXEN2q.pgp Description: PGP

[CentOS] error

2008-06-20 Thread suresh . tattikota
hi i tried waht u said , but i am getting the error like [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# named -g -p 53 20-Jun-2008 13:31:23.669 starting BIND 9.3.3rc2 -g -p 53 20-Jun-2008 13:31:23.669 found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread 20-Jun-2008 13:31:23.673 loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' 20-Jun-200

[CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Alwin Roosen
Hi, Is there someone on this mailing list who could/want help me figure out this issue? We do not know where to look to solve this. --- Description --- This is a brand new server, which has been tested for days with FreeBSD in our office, and a few days with Windows on the site of our hardware

[CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
I have been asked to put a club's membership form on their web, but firefox displays it as scaled to 23% and it prints at that scale. Can anyone tell me why? Thanks Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listin

[CentOS] Command line logging program suggestions?

2008-06-20 Thread Rob Lines
I am looking for an app that would run from the terminal and would emulate a bash shell (or pass everything to the shell) that would allow me to set a log file and then record all my input and the output to the screen from the commands. As an added bonus if it would allow me to run it from two ter

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:41 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > I have been asked to put a club's membership form on their web, but firefox > displays it as scaled to 23% and it prints at that scale. Can anyone tell me > why? Thanks > Anne, Don't know, but it might help to know what format you are us

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Matt Harwood
Hi Anne Hope you don't mind me butting in on this (as a newbie round here!). If you would like to provide a URL for the page I'd be more than willing to take a look at it for you. Thanks! *Matt Harwood* Designer, NannyGroup Limited Mob: 07887 817769 Anne Wilson wrote: I have been asked to

Re: [CentOS] Command line logging program suggestions?

2008-06-20 Thread Sergey Podushkin
Hi! Rob Lines wrote: I am looking for an app that would run from the terminal and would emulate a bash shell (or pass everything to the shell) that would allow me to set a log file and then record all my input and the output to the screen from the commands. As an added bonus if it would allow

[CentOS] Recent problems printing to HP 7310 port 9100

2008-06-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have been printing to this printer for years it seems. Recently, printing from Firefox would hang in the print que, but other prints would go behind the hung job. Deleting the hung print job would not seem to change the que until I rebooted. Now I have an OpenOffice job stuck as well. I a

Re: [CentOS] Command line logging program suggestions?

2008-06-20 Thread Matt Shields
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Rob Lines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for an app that would run from the terminal and would emulate > a bash shell (or pass everything to the shell) that would allow me to set a > log file and then record all my input and the output to the screen from

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 14:40 +0200, Alwin Roosen wrote: > Hi, > > > Is there someone on this mailing list who could/want help me figure out > this issue? We do not know where to look to solve this. ... > I would be very surprised if this is hardware related. A google on "Machine Check Exception

Re: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:54 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > Hi - daft one for Friday morning coffee break: > > I have been trying to mount floppies on a couple of CentOS5 servers - > the usual "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (yes, /mnt/floppy exists!). > > On both servers, the mount command just do

Re: [CentOS] Command line logging program suggestions?

2008-06-20 Thread Walid
2008/6/20 Rob Lines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am looking for an app that would run from the terminal and would emulate > a bash shell (or pass everything to the shell) that would allow me to set a > log file and then record all my input and the output to the screen from the > commands. As an added

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Walid
2008/6/20 Alwin Roosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > > Is there someone on this mailing list who could/want help me figure out > this issue? We do not know where to look to solve this. > If your installation is standard CentOS with no thirdparty software, and configurations, I would first run the

[CentOS] Autofs and mount/umount entries in the nfs server logs

2008-06-20 Thread Rob Lines
I am using autofs for a number of machines connecting nfs shares. All the mount and unmount log entries on the server are being saved to /var/log/messages currently. This is becoming a bit of a pain because as the number of hosts increase and various monitoring scripts check to be sure that they

RE: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread Nigel Kendrick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:16 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:54 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > Hi - daft one for Friday mor

RE: [CentOS] mdbtools on CentOS: FIXED

2008-06-20 Thread Nigel Kendrick
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nigel Kendrick > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:25 AM > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: [CentOS] mdbtools on CentOS > > Morning everyone, > > I was hoping to use mdbtools to extract data from some Access databases overnight

Re: [CentOS] Command line logging program suggestions?

2008-06-20 Thread nate
Rob Lines wrote: > Anyone know of an app like this or any suggestions that could be added to my > bashrc to provide the functionality? I use script for this purpose from the manpage: Script makes a typescript of everything printed on your terminal. It is useful for students who need a hardcopy r

Re: [CentOS] error

2008-06-20 Thread Ralph Angenendt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# named -g -p 53 > 20-Jun-2008 13:31:23.669 starting BIND 9.3.3rc2 -g -p 53 > 20-Jun-2008 13:31:23.669 found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread > 20-Jun-2008 13:31:23.673 loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' > 20-Jun-2008 13:31:23.674 /etc/rndc.con

Re: [CentOS] Command line logging program suggestions?

2008-06-20 Thread Rob Lines
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Walid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > screen as already mentioned, also script, and if you are doing it to > monitor other activities other than yours ttysnoop > http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttysnoop/, for putty there is tabbed putty > btw @ http://put

Re: [CentOS] Command line logging program suggestions?

2008-06-20 Thread Tru Huynh
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:24:52AM -0400, Rob Lines wrote: ... > > I will take a look at screen though it will probably take some getting used > to with how it seems to handle . The main goal was to help keep better > track of changes made while troubleshooting issues without having to write > do

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 June 2008 13:58:25 Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:41 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I have been asked to put a club's membership form on their web, but > > firefox displays it as scaled to 23% and it prints at that scale. Can > > anyone tell me why? Thanks > > Anne,

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 June 2008 13:59:27 Matt Harwood wrote: > Hi Anne > > Hope you don't mind me butting in on this (as a newbie round here!). > > If you would like to provide a URL for the page I'd be more than willing > to take a look at it for you. > Thanks for the offer, Matt, but I don't know whether

Re: [CentOS] Recent problems printing to HP 7310 port 9100

2008-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 June 2008 14:05:16 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have been printing to this printer for years it seems. > > Recently, printing from Firefox would hang in the print que, but other > prints would go behind the hung job. Deleting the hung print job would > not seem to change the que until

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've fixed it by uploading a pdf instead of the original jpg, but I'd dearly > like to know why firefox thought it should be scaled like that. Apparently the justification for this is that it makes Firefox work better on PDA

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently the justification for this is that it makes Firefox work > better on PDAs and other small-screen devices. Firefox3 introduced > "automatic image scaling" Before someone else corrects me: Yes, I just realized t

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CentOS release 5 (Final) > Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 on an i686 > > ws174 login: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0005 > CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004 > Bank 3: f6220002010a at 32c93500 > Bank 5: f2

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Bart Schaefer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Apparently the justification for this is that it makes Firefox work >> better on PDAs and other small-screen devices. Firefox3 introduced >> "a

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 June 2008 16:04:27 Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've fixed it by uploading a pdf instead of the original jpg, but I'd > > dearly like to know why firefox thought it should be scaled like that. > > Apparently the jus

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 June 2008 16:31:36 Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Bart Schaefer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Bart Schaefer > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Apparently the justification for this is that it makes Firefox work > >> bette

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Michael
Lanny Marcus wrote: On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CentOS release 5 (Final) Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 on an i686 ws174 login: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0005 CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004 Bank 3: f6220002010a at 32c93500 B

[CentOS] Re: Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread Robert Nichols
Nigel Kendrick wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:01 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies Nigel Kendrick wrote: So is it me, CentOS 5 or something else? (Idea

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Anyway, I did a test with the 2.6.18-93.el5.bz444759 kernel and there's no difference: 65 minutes, 27 MB/s. Looks like it doesn't matter which kernel I use, at least for this simple test with dd. I wonder if a test closer to real life, such as reading/writing stuff from

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread nate
Michael wrote: > But I don't want to get into the situation above, where I purchase NEW > hardware, and CentOS doesn't like it, and furthermore the resolution is > elusive. > > What is the best HW environment for CentOS? > Brand, MFG, chipset rev, and so on Easiest is to buy from a vendor tha

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 at 9:55am, Florin Andrei wrote Florin Andrei wrote: Anyway, I did a test with the 2.6.18-93.el5.bz444759 kernel and there's no difference: 65 minutes, 27 MB/s. Looks like it doesn't matter which kernel I use, at least for this simple test with dd. I wonder if a test clo

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyway, I did a test with the 2.6.18-93.el5.bz444759 kernel and there's no >> difference: 65 minutes, 27 MB/s. Looks like it doesn't matter which kernel I >> use, at least for this simple test with dd. No. Since you're

Re: [CentOS] mdbtools on CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Bob Taylor
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:25 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: [snip] If you, or others like you, insist on using HTML for email to this list please set your font size to 10! Thank you! Bob -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lis

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
Jim Perrin wrote: Nope. This is just a long-standing performance thing. You can tune ext3 to perform better, but on a 3ware card xfs will win, hands down. of course, XFS can also fail spectacularly.ext3fs fully journals all metadata updates. I'm sure this is a major portion of the per

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 at 10:34am, John R Pierce wrote Jim Perrin wrote: Nope. This is just a long-standing performance thing. You can tune ext3 to perform better, but on a 3ware card xfs will win, hands down. of course, XFS can also fail spectacularly.ext3fs fully journals all metadata up

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Florin Andrei
John R Pierce wrote: of course, XFS can also fail spectacularly.ext3fs fully journals all metadata updates. I'm sure this is a major portion of the performance differences on writes. Actually, I've used XFS since the days it was released as a port to Linux (and even before that, on Ir

RE: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 14:54 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of William L. Maltby > > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:54 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > > Hi - daft one for Friday morning coffee break: > > > >

RE: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Florin Andrei wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > > > of course, XFS can also fail spectacularly.ext3fs fully journals all > > metadata updates. I'm sure this is a major portion of the performance > > differences on writes. > > Actually, I've used XFS since the days it was released as a po

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mounting Floppies

2008-06-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 11:54 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > Nigel Kendrick wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Ralph Angenendt > > > > Nigel Kendrick wrote: > >> > You've tried replacing the drive, and the disk works in your

[CentOS] Re: A couple of security questions

2008-06-20 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-20-2008 12:41 AM Luigi Perroti spake the following: Hello, I'd like to ask a couple of things: 1) I would like to move from Debian to CentOS. One thing I will probably miss is the debsecan tool. This utility sends me a mail whenever there is a change regarding the vulnerabilities' status on

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/20/08, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Easiest is to buy from a vendor that can test on your OS of choice, > there are lots of vendors out there that can do it. > > Two such companies I have bought from that do this include > http://www.siliconmechanics.com/ (HQ in Seattle, WA area) > http:

[CentOS] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-20-2008 8:23 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CentOS release 5 (Final) Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 on an i686 ws174 login: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0005 CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004 Bank 3: f62000

Re: [CentOS] New convert

2008-06-20 Thread MHR
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Matt Harwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dunc and Anne, > > Thanks for your replies! Yes it certainly seems a nice, active list. > > As for my mobile number, I've no problems sharing it - it's not my personal > one anyway :-) > Okay, everyone, ready to dial? mhr

Re: [CentOS] Logitech cordless desktop ex 90

2008-06-20 Thread MHR
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:53 AM, jarmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone using ex 90? > I have it running, no problem. Only mouse was little tricky, namely in X. > But jut a little change in xorg.conf and everything works fine (CO 5.1 desktop > install with vanilla kernel). > Now would like to ge

Re: [CentOS] Re: A couple of security questions

2008-06-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:13:39AM -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > on 6-20-2008 12:41 AM Luigi Perroti spake the following: > >Hello, I'd like to ask a couple of things: > > > >1) I would like to move from Debian to CentOS. > >One thing I will probably miss is the debsecan tool. > >This utility sends m

Re: [CentOS] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/20/08, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As most of us have found out at some time; > brand new does not always equal OK. > I have had plenty of hardware that was dead on arrival or dead in days. > Check > the obvious of re-seating all removable parts like memory and cards, and > also

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Richard Karhuse
On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > CentOS release 5 (Final) > Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 on an i686 > > ws174 login: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0005 > CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004 > Bank 3: f6220002010a at 32c93500 > Ban

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread nate
Richard Karhuse wrote: > Dag's Repo has the new memtest86+ 2.01 RPM. I'd pull it and > let it run overnight. While memtest86+ is good, I've recently had > cases where is didn't find (obvious) memory errors. My favorite test is cerberus(ctcs). Quite a few OEMs out there use it to burn in their s

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a brand new server, which has been tested for days with FreeBSD > in our office, and a few days with Windows on the site of our hardware > distributor. Now customer wants CentOS, which we installed, but after > few days we get a kernel

[CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-20 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all I'm trying to get to grips with this one, but just can't figure it out. I recently acquired some 2nd hand Dell Poweredge 860 servers, and noticed that they have built in remote management interfaces. So, I have setup one, and assigned an IP address to it, but have no idea on how to acc

Re: [CentOS] Re: netboot, vnc and no keyboard/mouse/monitor

2008-06-20 Thread dnk
For those of you that were interested, it is now posted on the wiki http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall Let me know if you have any questions. Dnk On 16-Jun-08, at 7:38 AM, Tim Nelson wrote: Has a wiki entry been created for this yet? A search of wiki.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] What will the upgrade to 5.2 be like?

2008-06-20 Thread Florin Andrei
Lanny Marcus wrote: I'm looking forward to upgrading to 5.2! If for nothing else, for the newer version of Mozilla Firefox. The current version (1.5.0.12) crashes, very frequently, at web sites I use. You can always put a newer version of FF in /home/${USER}/firefox and then put that direct

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 15:57 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ws174 login: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0005 > > CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004 > > Bank 3: f6220002010a at 32c93500 > > Bank 5: f2

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I'm trying to get to grips with this one, but just can't figure it out. I recently acquired some 2nd hand Dell Poweredge 860 servers, and noticed that they have built in remote management interfaces. So, I have setup one, and assigned an IP address to it, but have no

Re: [CentOS] Autofs and mount/umount entries in the nfs server logs

2008-06-20 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Rob Lines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to continue to see these messages but I would like to > see them put else where but looking through the documentation for syslog I > couldn't find any way to separate just those messages out. I also have the same

Re: [CentOS] What will the upgrade to 5.2 be like?

2008-06-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/20/08, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can always put a newer version of FF in /home/${USER}/firefox and > then put that directory at the beginning of $PATH in your .bash_profile > > No other changes are necessary and next time you log in voila! when you > click the FF icon in

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-20 Thread Rudi Ahlers
John R Pierce wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I'm trying to get to grips with this one, but just can't figure it out. I recently acquired some 2nd hand Dell Poweredge 860 servers, and noticed that they have built in remote management interfaces. So, I have setup one, and assigned an IP addr

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a brand new server, which has been tested for days with FreeBSD > in our office, and a few days with Windows on the site of our hardware > distributor. Now customer wants CentOS, which we installed, but after > few days we get a kernel

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 15:57 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ws174 login: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0005 CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004 Bank 3: f6220002010a at 0

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-20 Thread nate
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I'm not 100% sure if there's a DRAC 4 device in. It has 2x NIC's, and I > can set the IP on the top NIC as the management IP. I haven't been able > to connect to it via a web browser though, nor can I ping it. Install the OpenIPMI tools, start ipmi, and try to connect using i

[CentOS] centos 4.6 - 586 install - how to get that to a 486 level if possible

2008-06-20 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a method to get a 586 (i586 text) install to a 486 level? I am looking for information guidance on this. I have looked into using debian/386 which stinks in my opinion, slackware doesnt quite have it either. So I am wishing/hoping there is a NOT TO painful way to get a 586 install to

Re: [CentOS] centos 4.6 - 586 install - how to get that to a 486 level if possible

2008-06-20 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:55:17PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > Is there a method to get a 586 (i586 text) install to a 486 level? > I am looking for information guidance on this. > I have looked into using debian/386 which stinks in my opinion, > slackware doesnt quite have it either. > > So I am

Re: [CentOS] centos 4.6 - 586 install - how to get that to a 486 level if possible

2008-06-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
Jerry Geis wrote: Is there a method to get a 586 (i586 text) install to a 486 level? I am looking for information guidance on this. I have looked into using debian/386 which stinks in my opinion, slackware doesnt quite have it either. So I am wishing/hoping there is a NOT TO painful way to ge

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I'm trying to get to grips with this one, but just can't figure it out. I recently acquired some 2nd hand Dell Poweredge 860 servers, and noticed that they have built in remote management interfaces. So, I have setup one, and assigned an IP address to it, but have no

Re: [CentOS] error

2008-06-20 Thread suresh . tattikota
hi this is my named.conf // // named.conf for Red Hat caching-nameserver // options { directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; /* * If there is a firewall between you and nameser

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-20 Thread Rudi Ahlers
nate wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: I'm not 100% sure if there's a DRAC 4 device in. It has 2x NIC's, and I can set the IP on the top NIC as the management IP. I haven't been able to connect to it via a web browser though, nor can I ping it. Install the OpenIPMI tools, start ipmi, and try

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-20 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Les Mikesell wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I'm trying to get to grips with this one, but just can't figure it out. I recently acquired some 2nd hand Dell Poweredge 860 servers, and noticed that they have built in remote management interfaces. So, I have setup one, and assigned an IP addre